Posted on 11/24/2023 5:26:30 AM PST by jerod
Boar-ing...
The only thing they didn’t have were RPG’s, can’t wait till they get to my State and make it legal.
I thought that might be the case but wasn’t sure.
I read the post to mean that TStro was heck-bent on hunting the pigs to PREVENT the damage the pigs were doing.
A coupla more years of Bidenomics and we’ll be fighting our neighbors to shoot one of these!
There are feral swine in all big democrat cities.
—”I eat fetal hogs all the time in Texas”
Are there any concerns about trichinosis or the many other parasites they carry?
I have heard you must cook it to 160F plus to be safe.
All the evidence is that hunting just scatters a sounder into multiple sounders and makes it worse. Several states discourage sport “hunting” of feral hogs and have programs to capture entire sounders.
Feral hogs are not game animals. The purpose of hunting is to manage a sustainable population. We don’t want a sustainable population of feral hogs. We want them exterminated.
I wouldn’t want to eat them
Ever tasted aged boar meat....The smell alone is enough to gag you.
Duh! (I live in Texas...) way better than store bought pork. We say meaner but leaner.
I’m sure the poster and his land-owning farmer friends want them eliminated, too. And they are doing their part. He told of their carcass numbers. What good would it do to wait for some magic elimination formula and let the ones they can get rid of just keep on keeping on?
They are legal to hunt, so that makes them a game animal.
They are not a "game animal."
They are an invasive species.
Evidently you don't know the difference.
tasty??? must have a strange idea of what tasty is...
I grew up in a family of farmers who hunt, even though I gave it up personally. Feral pigs are both an invasive species and a game animal.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/game%20animal
When I had a nursing contract is Maine, a patient’s family had taped a collage of photos on the closet door to cheer him on, his illness was serious. The room was crowded with family of all ages.
Right in the middle of the photo collage was the patient kneeling with his gun in front of an enormous hog the size of a MiniCooper. He had come down to Texas on a hunt at one of the big camps and bagged a big one.
With my best Texan drawl and a twinkle in my eye, I said,” You know those are endangered!!!”
The gap that came from the group was priceless. The younger family members looked at him like he had clubbed a baby seal! Dad - how could you !!!
The brave hunter and I laughed until tears.
I read a quote from a Fish and Wildlife official, “if a feral sow has 8 piglets, 12 of them will live.”
They are not very “tasty” unless you trap them and feed them out for a while.
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I can vouch for that.
Look up wet aging. Done it with hog, buck/elk/moose and bear.
And always give them a good bath before skinning.
That should be exterminated.
According to the Missouri Department of Conservation, all the current crop of feral hogs in Missouri were released by people who want to hunt them. They won’t be destroying their crops and woodlands, so what do they care?
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